This book presents 25 true stories of a still-wild West from 1890 through 1940—tales of bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, counterfeiters, gamblers, bootleggers, and crooked politicians—offering a colorful tour of an often-overlooked era when vast reaches of the frontier were still lawless. Here you'll meet Ned Christie, the proud Cherokee who resisted arrest in Oklahoma by holing up in his makeshift log fortress; Lawrence Kelly, who smuggled everything from illegal immigrants to opium into Washington State; Lou Blonger, the elegant Coloradoan swindler who made a huge fortune as a con man; and Stelle and Bennie Dickson, who did their best to become South Dakota's own Bonnie and Clyde.